Hey!
So on Friday I was taking a lunch break and I got a text from my friend Steve that was
like Hey Evan what are you doing this weekend?
And I was like I'm not doing anything.
So he was like that's it I'm booking you flights we're going to T in the Park, a big festival
in Scotland.
And I was like okay?
Here I am!
At T in the Park as you can see I've never been to a British festival before, but I'm
really excited.
However, what am I doing right now?
I'm talking to a camera!
Priorities!
Priorities.
Gotta have a new video every Sunday!
So because as soon as I'm done filming thisI'm gonna go to all the concerts I can I figured
why don't we have a sit and chat about music.
Now, I'm definitely going to be showing my age here, but the first time I can remember
actively listening to music was when I would ask my mom to buy me cassettes of 80's pop
songs just to listen in my cassette player.
The only song from this era of my life that I can remember is a song that went boom boom
boom lemme hear you say wayho!
Wayho!
There was a viral video about it a couple years ago and I was like oh my God!
I remember that song!
But for the most part the only music I listened to going into adolescence was video game music.
Like I couldn't name any songs from Pink Floyd or any pop songs or anything like that, but
if you were like do you know any songs from yasunori mitsuda or yoko shimomura?
I'd be like Yeah?!
All of them.
Duh.
When I got my first iPod at about 16 I really didn't know what to put on it.
So I ended up doing what any teenage white boy would do, I filled it with weird al yancovic
and the red hot chili peppers.
Don't judge okay.
Don't judge.
Around this time I started messing with limewire for finding music, and don't judge me okay,
we've all used it.
We've all downloaded limewire pro from limewire.
Except one time I tried downloading a snow patrol song on limewire and when I got it,
I put on my earphones and the first 10 seconds were really quiet so I turned the volume all
the way up and then right at that point.... SCREEEEEECH Just really high-pitched scream
and it felt like my ears were going to bleed.
And I was like AHHH WHYYYY?!
And that was my fault.
I shouldn't have used limewire in the first place.
And you know what?
I heard they're not even around anymore because they got a torrential amount of lawsuits.
The first band that ever got me into other music was Relient K.
I feel like it's because when I first downloaded one of their albums I was like oh I like every
single song on this album!
That's interesting.
So I ended up buying all their albums and going to their shows and listening to the
people that opened for them and going wow I really like this band!
That's how I found Deas Vail and Barcelona.
I ended up hearing Owl City Fireflies on the radio one time and I was like oh my God I
love this song so much to one of my best friends and she was like of course you like this it
sounds just like the lead singer of Relient K. Funny enough he sang on that song.
I didn't even know.
So I was like really obsessed with that band at the time.
But to this day Relient K's album Forget and Not Slow Down is one of my all time favourite
albums of all time.
Because that thing came out within like 2 weeks of me breaking up with my girlfriend
and the album is a breakup album, but every single song spoke to me and the lyrics were
beautiful.
To this day, I listen to that final song and this one point, and I will cry.
I will cry.
That's just it; I can't help it.
It's a really emotional album.
At one point, a girl I knew from Dailybooth who I ended up meeting at my first Vidcon
introduced me to Jack's Mannequin and that sent me into a frenzy where I had to find
everything and anything Andrew McMahon of Jack's Mannequin had ever sung in.
Because I just love it!
Andrew McMahon is the only lyricist I've ever known who made lyrics good enough that I'd
want to have on my arm.
Like I don't even consider tattoos a thing for me, but with his lyrics.
I was like yeah.
Yeah!
I'd get that.
So, Jack's Mannequin's album Everything in Transit is one of my all time favourite albums.
I've listened to it every single time I've flown across the sea back to America because
it represents travel so much to me.
And it holds so much bearing to me that I just remember one of my last days in the US
before flying over to move to the UK I was blasting Everything in Transit driving past
the vineyards and I was just crying.
I didn't know why, but it was such a big change in my life.
The travel and the moving, and everything in transit.
and I was in transit.
And that album kinda just helped me a lot.
One of my biggest regrets in life is not going to see Ke$ha headline when she was playing
at my university because at that point I had one of those personalities where I was like
UGH I hate pop music, people that like pop music suck.
No, excuse me.
No one likes that guy.
Don't be that guy.
Pop music is great!
That's why it's popular!
That's the whole point of pop music.
But I had one of those annoying personalities so I didn't go.
And then when I started, ya know, listening to some Ke$ha ironically, I realised holy
crap!
This stuff is so good!
I'm so into it!
It's so catchy!
And then through her I found Carly Rae Jepson where I listened to her whole album and I
was like ahhh this is so good!
And now I like pop music okay?
Every song is a chune!
(tune) It's British okay I'm trying to blend in here; don't let them hurt me.
Another really big regret I have about music is that I feel like I was the last person
to listen to fall out boy.
Like where was everyone?
Why didn't anyone tell me how great they were???
I remember hearing them for the first time at my friend's sweet 16 party and Sugar We're
Going Down came on and I was going what the heck is he even saying???
I just learned recently they're not going down in a merry go round so there's that.
Doesn't make sense now does it.
Ha
My my my my fancy dream.
My my my fancy dream.
But I still love Fall Out Boy despite the fact that I couldn't tell you my favourite
song by them because I know how it goes, but there's no way I could remember that freakin
title!
It goes on for ages.
Now I know my favourite album is roughly either Folie a Deux or Save Rock and Roll; I just
really like them as albums.
But I know a lot of you are gonna be like Cork Tree!
Old stuff!
Okay!
We all have different tastes in music.
It's okay.
Put a cork in it.
That was bad.
So that's why I'm at this festival.
I wanna find some new music.
And that's why I have to ask you what is your favourite album?
Like what album just gets you.
I know a lot of people have been asking me to listen to Twenty-One Pilots, and I haven't
really given them a chance.
I listened to a ukulele cover they did and I was like dude that guys voice is amazing.
But besides that I haven't gotten into it.
So what album from any band that you love should I download should I start listening
to.
Because I just really need some new music.
Also if you liked this sit and chat video then give it a like below!
Other than that, I've got a concert to go to so thank you so much for watching.
I will see you guys next Sunday.
Good bye!
*cue catchy whistling outro* *swoosh*
I'm surprised I've lasted this long without anyone interrupting me...
*sexy music*